Chapter 118: A gift to Li Shimin

After the family dinner, it was New Year's Eve in a flash. On the day of Datang Company's annual meeting, he took the time to sneak back to the newly bought villa. One last task.

The prey accumulated in the palace was not consumed at the family banquet, so Zhang San marinated the remaining meat. On New Year's Eve, Li Yin asked him to take it all out and prepare a portion for the servants according to the dishes of the last family banquet. It can be regarded as a New Year's benefit for the servants of the palace.

On New Year's Eve, it is customary to watch the year, and Li Yin and Cui Yingying were also up. This girl suddenly started to miss home, and she was not in a good mood, because every New Year's Eve, the family, old and young, would gather together to eat, drink and have fun, which was extremely lively. But today is indeed a bit deserted, until the servants came to kowtow at midnight, and said auspicious words to the two of them for the New Year, and the noisy atmosphere made her feel better.

In Chang'an Taiji Palace, a grand family banquet is in progress. The princes, princesses and concubines are all present. Li Shimin sits in the main seat and smiles as he looks at the assembled children. He suddenly feels a sense of satisfaction in his heart. His eyes are on everyone. Sweeping one by one, when he passed by Concubine Yang, his eyes paused, and he couldn't help sighing. Everyone was beaming at this moment. melancholy.

Empress Changsun held her son in her left hand, and her childish slave in her right hand. She looked at Princess Changle, who was fighting with Li Chengqian and Li Tai, with a smile on her face. When she heard Li Shimin's sigh, she said, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

"Didn't you notice that there was one person missing in the family banquet?" Li Shimin said, holding a glass of apricot blossom wine.

Empress Changsun was stunned, and sighed: "Is your Majesty talking about Min'er?"

"After the New Year, he is fifteen years old, and this is his first time celebrating the New Year outside." Li Shimin said slowly.

At this time, Sizi raised his head and said to Li Shimin: "Father, I miss Sixth Brother too. When will he come back?"

"Me too." Li Zhi said: "The third brother is not fun at all, but the sixth brother is more fun."

Li Shimin scratched his little nose, and said to Li Zhi: "Your sixth brother can't play with you all the time, and it's the same when you grow up. As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, you must always do your part for the Tang Dynasty. to the local officials."

Li Zhi heard this, and made a bitter face, "Then I don't want to grow up, how nice it is to be by the mother's side and the father's side!"

Xi Zi burst into tears when he heard "Wow", "Sixth Brother is gone, Ninth Brother is leaving too, no one will play with Si Zi from now on."

"My son doesn't cry, my father didn't say to let the childish slave go." Li Shimin hurriedly comforted, and the empress Changsun was also on the sidelines and continued to comfort...

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Yin asked Jin Daqian to set up a running water banquet in the palace. On the first day of the new year, every household would set up a banquet for those who came to pay New Year's greetings. This is called a wheel seat.

After tasting the delicacies of the palace, there was an endless stream of officials and prominent families who came to Li Min's mansion to pay New Year's greetings in the morning. Qin Huaiyu, Shangguanyi, Tong Nian and Wang Yinlong were the first to arrive at the palace. Stuffing food into his stomach like a ghost, as if he had been hungry for two days and waited for this meal. Of course, the others were not much better.

People who came to Shu Palace to pay New Year's greetings were of some status in Yizhou, and ordinary people did not dare to come to the door. Li Min also sent people to place noodles, rice porridge, and some pickles on the road at the door, so that some poor people could eat Good meal.

It is a custom for officials in Yizhou to pay New Year greetings to their superiors, and it is also custom for local officials to pay New Year greetings to the emperor. Senior officials like Li Yin usually have to enter the palace to pay New Year greetings to Li Shimin on the first day of the new year, but Li Yin can't go, it's just that he The gift prepared for Li Shimin had already arrived in Chang'an, and he could not go there in person, so Li Ke had to deliver it on his behalf.

At the court meeting on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, all civil and military officials were present, and some foreign envoys also came to Beijing to congratulate them with gifts. Li Ke paid homage to the Chinese New Year and said, "Father, Liulang also has a gift for my son to pass on to my father." .”

Li Shimin is not interested in the same gifts from all officials. When Li Ke said this, he had some expectations, because Li Yin could always get some weird things, and said, "Oh, really? What kind of gift."

"Liulang said that what he gave to the emperor was the Tang Dynasty." Li Ke said hesitantly. In the letter, Li Yin did say so. He knew it was inappropriate to say so, but Li Yin confessed that he could only insist scalp.

As soon as Li Ke's words fell, there were bursts of whispers in the hall immediately, there was no lack of arrogant and rebellious words among them, and people like Cheng Yaojin, Xiao Yu, Lu Shang and others who were close to Li Yin had worried expressions on their faces, while others It's schadenfreude, irony, insensitivity, the list goes on.

Li Shimin was also slightly displeased at first, but he understood that Li Yin was not someone who did things without thinking, so he said: "Submit it!"

Li Ke ordered to go outside the door and called out. Four guards came in carrying a huge scroll-like thing. Li Min had just arrived in Chang'an as a gift, and he had never seen what was inside, so he said, "Open it." .”

Hearing this, the guards untied the rope tied at both ends, and slowly pulled the paper roll away. A giant map slowly appeared in front of Li Shimin. Five meters long and three meters wide, the map was drawn by Li Min in combination with the actual situation of the Tang Dynasty and historical facts. The territory of the Tang Dynasty is all on it. Every river and every mountain can be found on it, let alone prefectures and counties. said.

After the map was opened, everyone's eyes were focused on the map. Some generals who were marching and fighting immediately recognized what it was, and they were all amazed.

Li Shimin walked down quickly, staring at the map for a moment, "This is Hedong Road, this is Jiannan Road, this is Lingnan Road." Li Shimin counted them one by one, and checked the counties of the prefectures and counties among these roads. Location.

Li Ke recovered from the shock, pointed to the four words "Great Tang Jiangshan" on the map, and said: "Father, Liu Lang is right, this is indeed the Great Tang Jiangshan."

"Hahaha..." Li Shimin laughed heartily, and said, "Hang this picture in the Ganlu Palace, and I will appreciate it slowly when I go back."

"Yes, father." Li Ke waved his hand, several guards rolled up the blueprint again, and many ministers who were fascinated by it sighed, wishing they could look at it for a while.

Li Shimin touched the heavy map, as if he had found a treasure, and said to the ministers: "This is the most precious gift I have received this year."

"I wait to congratulate Your Majesty!" Changsun Wuji took the lead and bowed in congratulations. Many people were sour, but there was nothing they could do. Not everyone could give this "Great Tang Dynasty".

In Yizhou, Li Yin and Cui Yingying spent a busy day on the first day of the new year. In addition to accepting New Year greetings from local officials and prominent families, they also watched the common people dance the Great God. The masked Nuo Weng and the Nuo Mother led the dance. Hundreds of child guards wearing child masks formed a team, playing and singing while walking, which was very lively. Inside, the rowdy didn't end until midnight.

Looking at the broken bamboo pieces all over the place, Li Yin thought that if he could research the fireworks next year, he would have something to play with during the Chinese New Year.